Example Sentences

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Writing software seems all the more like sorcery because, well, all you’re doing is uttering words.

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2019

"Action is the best option in treating the dotard who, hard of hearing, is uttering only what he wants to say," Mr Kim wrote, displaying a keen sense of the original meaning of the word.

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2017

At length, high up on the dried top of an aged maura, a snow-white bird may be seen, no larger than a pigeon; and yet it is the creature who is uttering those strange sounds.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Such inattention is practically saying that what the person is uttering is not worth attending to; and persons of real good-breeding always avoid it.

From American Woman's Home by Beecher, Catharine Esther

An old man of a hundred and fifty years of age is in the agonies of death, and is uttering something in the Persian language, which we do not understand.

From The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 by Ross, James